Words Like RECAPITULATE
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12 Alternative Words Similar to recapitulate
10 definitions of recapitulate
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To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
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To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
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repeat an earlier theme of a composition
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repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
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To repeat in concise form.
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Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
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To repeat, as the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay; give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; mention or relate in brief.
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Synonyms Recapitulate, Repeat, Recite, Rehearse, Reiterate. Recapitulate is a precise word, applying to the formal or exact naming of points that have been with some exactness named before: as, it is often well after an extended argument, to recapitulate the heads. In this it differs from repeat, recite, rehears, which are freer in their use. To reiterate is to say a thing a second time or oftener.